The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-22
SPIRITUALISM.

Plain Dealer: The seances took place
IL q room in hotel; there was no
,abinet or other paraphernaia such
rs are usually employed, but simply
quilt suspended across one corner,
and behind this curtain chair. There
vas no chance for confeGerates, the
Use of trap doors or any means OF
'raud or deception. The hotel-keeper.,
,is family and party OF friends, IN
Guiding Cleveland commercial trav-
,ler composed the company present.
The only door to the room was locked,
and one OF the party held the key.
The Plain Dealer makes these extra
ordinary statements:
The medium, q large and rather
heavy woman about forty-five years
II aye, clad wholly in dark clothing.
vent behind the curtain and sat in the
hair. Each member OF the circle went
40 to the curtain and, looking behind
i, saw nothing there but an elderly
.ady sitting on u chair. The curtain
was drawn and all sat down. In less
than one minute the curtain was
swung back and something came out
into the semi.circle formed by the sit
tiers. 1t was not the woman who
went behind the curtain. 1t was the
figure OF little girl, apparently not
more than six years old. Slight OF
lorm, with fair face and golden hair,
a., Ia. NI as IN oil fAp
with stars and shining with II peculiar
phosphorescent glow. That this
,hild, plainly seen by all, was not be-
hsa the curtain a minute before, that
she was not in the room, that she
lid not 20 behind the curtain from
without any time, and that there was
no Other physical means OF getting
there, all knew beyond doubt.
Yet there was the figure, plain, palpa-
BILE, conscious, aiving reality. That at
least was physical fact beyond con-
troversy.
The writer's informant, the Cleve-
land travlng man, while astonished
at what he saw at the first sitting,
was perplexed in mind because moth
ING came TO him personally and was
inclined to believe there was some no.
cus-pocus about it, although he could
not see how there could be. So he
went back the second night full OF
doubt, and not expecting much. The
manifestations had hardly begun when
Daisy" the child-spirit before mem
toned who had come, came out into
the circle and said: Mr.. f., there IS
a spirit here who says he knows YOU"
"Who is it," asked Mr.. +. ale says
he thinks you ought to nowhim. He
will materialiZe so you can see him."
With that the form ola man came out
from behind the curtain, the little girl
remaining outside at the same time.
Mr.. f. asked the form to come closer
and it did so, extending its hand. 81
took the hand" says Mr. T.,
land looked close at the face,
recognizing it ut once 1t was an old
friend of mine that | had known in
this city, where he was connected with
n daily paper. | said In amazement:
1t is Jack H You know me then,
Dick spoke the form before me cali
ing me by name, which am .-ire the
medium did not know. Il think do,
said, but il that is, indeed, my old
friend Jack H tel, ME something that
you only and know OF and will be-
iieve.' i can do that he answered.
you Remembers that you and | we're
on the steamer ten years ago crossing
the lake from Detroit 20 Cleveland
when Dig storm came up and We
thought we were going to be wreckedY
had forgotten all about The C.r1ain-
stance and had not thought of it Tor
years; but ! remembered it then, and
said so. We were IN our berth in u
state.room, were we not?' 0cknowl-
edged that this was so. when we
thought the boat WAS going TO sink we
got up and seized the only iie-preserv-
err in the state-room and rushed up
on deck, you after me, shouting to me
to let you have the life-preserver| L
remembered that also. DO you re-
member what | saidT No, ! could
not recall that. i can tell you, he
said. "Pll let you have it when am
done with it." Can you remember
now?' remembered. These were the
very words. had forgotten them. /
had not thought OF the circumstance
for years; yet here comos shadow
from the land OF shadows. claiming to
be my friend who died, and who
brought with it the form, the features.
the voice OF that friend, telling me OF
something that only my friend and 1
knew, and something that | had for
90, ten myself. Was it-not my friendY
Was il not what il pretended to be?
II not that, then what was it? II it did
not come from the invisible world,
bringing with i; conscious individuali-
ty OF that friend OF mine, whence was
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